PARTICIPANT ARTISTS
TURN UP Tucson 2019 March 11th - 13th
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Yuliya Lanina is a Russian-born American multimedia artist. Her paintings, animations, interactive sculptures, and performances portray alternate realities that fuse fantasy, femininity, and humor. Lanina’s works have been exhibited in such museums and institutions as the Seoul Art Museum, Korea; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia; Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany; Cleveland Institute of Art, OH; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, TX, and Galapagos Art Center, Brooklyn, NY. Her multimedia works and performances have awarded her invitations to many art fairs, festivals and conferences, as well as to SXSW Interactive, SIGGRAPH Asia (Japan); SEAMUS (Oregon), 798 Beijing Biennial (China); Seoul International Media Art Biennial (Korea); KunstFilm Bienalle (Germany), Fusebox (TX) and the Creative Tech Week (New York City). Her work has been featured in Brooklyn Rail, Houston Press, Glasstire, Art Review, Wagmag, Bloomberg News, Austin-American Statesman, Australian Art Review, Sight Lines, NYArts Magazine, ART on AIR.com/MOMA, PS 1, Bejing Today and can be found in several national and international private and corporate collections. Revolt Magazine chose Lanina as one of their top ten New York City artists of 2013. Lanina is Lecturer at the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin. Website: www.yuliyalanina.com |
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Jeffrey Stolet is a professor of music and director of the Intermedia Music Technology at the University of Oregon. He received a PhD in Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Stolet was among the very first individuals to be appointed to a Philip H. Knight professorship at the University of Oregon. Stolet’s work has been presented around the world and is available on the Newport Classic, IMG Media, Cambria, SEAMUS and ICMA labels. Presentations of Stolet’s work include major electroacoustic and new media festivals, such as the International Computer Music Conference, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States Conference, the MusicAcoustica Festival in Beijing, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the Kyma International Sound Symposium, the Third Practice Festival, the Annual Electroacoustic Music Festival in Santiago de Chile, the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, SIGGRAPH, the transmediale International Media Art Festival, Boston Cyber Arts Festival, Cycle de concerts de Musique par ordinateur, the International Conference for New Interfaces for Musical Expression, the International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology in Taiwan, and the International Electroacoustic Music Festival “Primavera en La Habana,” in Cuba. Stolet’s recent work has centered on performance environments in which he uses a variety of wands, sensing devices, game controllers, and other magical things to control the sonic and videographic domains. Stolet has collaborated with the New Media Center at the University of Oregon to transform an original electronic music textbook into Electronic Music Interactive, an Internet deliverable, multimedia document containing motion animations, sound, and glossary, that has received rave reviews in the press (Electronic Musician, Keyboard magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Rolling Stone). Website: https://pages.uoregon.edu/fmo/home/ |
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Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish musician and sound artist who builds and performs with hybrid analogue/digital instruments. She is a “positively ferocious improvisor” (Cycling ‘74), her music refusing to sit nicely between free improv, experimental pop, techno, and noise. Over the last decade she has developed and honed a deliberately challenging and unpredictable performance system that explores the relationships between bodies, sound, environments, and technology. The Wire described her most recent album MANIPULATION (pan y rosas discos) as “skittering melodies and clip-clopping rhythms suggesting a mischievous intelligence emerging from this web of wires”. She is a member of the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and Assistant Professor of Sound Studies in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University, where she leads Practice and Research in Enactive Sonic Art (PARIESA). www.pariesa.com www.laurensarahhayes.com |
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Passionate about composing about place and the human experience, Christina Rusnak seeks to integrate context into her music from various sources, including landscape, culture, history and art.She strives to compose music that is thought provoking, and engages both the performers and the audience.
Ms. Rusnak’s work has been performed across the country at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, the Call of the Wild Arts Festival, among others. An avid hiker, she has been commissioned by the U.S. Forest Service, Oregon State Parks, Dallas Contemporary Art Museum and several ensembles. Her work has been performed by talented ensembles and performers as Third Angle, Citiwater and Corvus New Music Ensembles, Vocal Luna, and Jeffrey Jacob among others. She has been selected as an Artist in Residence for Homestead National Monument and North Cascades National Parks. Composing since age nine, Rusnak also works with communities and organizations as an advocate for both New Music and place. Her essays appear in LandscapeMusic.org, New Music Box, the IAWM Journal and Oregon Arts Watch among others. She serves on the board of the International Alliance of Women in Music. Her music is available on Parma Recordings. |
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TURN UP Multimedia Festival April 14th 2018
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Grace Ma has received numerous accolades for her versatile, eclectic, and imaginative compositions. Her repertoire includes chamber, solo-instrumental, electronic, orchestral, and vocal works, as well as film music. In 2018, Grace had her SXSW debut as composer to “A Woman Loves,” a film directed by local Austin filmmaker Vanessa Uhlig. She is set to be featured in Sound in Sculpture for a second year in a row as part of Fusebox Festival, and is contracted to compose and premiere a new work with award-winning chamber ensemble Duo Alterity at the Connecticut Summerfest in Hartford, CT. Grace is winner of the 2017 Duino Composition Prize at the International Music Festival of the Adriatic in Italy, and is recently recorded by Invoke string quartet sponsored by Austin-based non-profit Golden Hornet.
Grace is also an accomplished pianist—in 2010, she had her orchestral debut with the Victoria Symphony under Maestra Tania Miller in front of 40,000 spectators at Victoria, BC's Inner Harbour. She holds a master’s in composition degree from the University of Texas at Austin (2017), a bachelor’s in composition from the University of British Columbia (2015), and is an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto in piano performance (2010). website: www.gracemamusic.com |
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Rachel Frock is a software consultant, developing various software products for clients in the Austin area. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science and Arts in Computer Science with a music minor from the Butler School of Music and a certificate in Digital Arts and Media from the Bridging Disciplines Program. While at UT Austin, Rachel was the media designer for collaborative pieces in Ears, Eyes and Feet in 2015 and 2016. After graduation, Rachel was the programmer for "Reflective Impulse," an interactive media and dance performance involving Kinect sensors performed at SXSW 2017. Within the same year, she collaborated with UT students for an installation piece, "Hollow," which was chosen for the Cohen New Works Festival. Rachel has worked with various hardware like the Myo armband, Kinect sensors and RealSense sensors, in order to create real-time interactive media through software programs such as Processing, After Effects, Isadora and TouchDesigner. Rachel feels so honored to continue finding opportunities, past graduation, to create interactive media and do something she loves!
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Eschewing the collection of traditional titles that describe single elements of her body of work, Elizabeth A. Baker refers to herself as a “New Renaissance Artist” that embraces a constant stream of change and rebirth in practice, which expands into a variety of media, chiefly an exploration of how sonic and spatial worlds can be manipulated to personify a variety of philosophies and principles both tangible as well as intangible. Elizabeth has received recognition from press as well as scholars, for her conceptual compositions and commitment to inclusive programming. In addition to studies of her work, Elizabeth has been awarded several fellowships, grants, and residencies, in addition to sponsorships from Schoenhut Piano Company and Source Audio LLC. As a solo artist, Elizabeth represented by Aerocade Music. She is founder of the Florida International Toy Piano Festival, The New Music Conflagration, Inc., author of two books, and one half of the Baker-Barganier Duo. Website: www.elizabethabaker.com |
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Akshaya Avril Tucker is a composer and cellist from Western Massachusetts. She is currently in her first year of the M.M. Composition program at the University of Texas at Austin, studying with Don Grantham, Yevgeniy Sharlat, Russell Pinkston and Stephen Slawek. Akshaya has been studying Odissi dance since 1999, and Classical Indian music (on cello) since 2014, and her work is greatly inspired by the musical and dance traditions of South Asia. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 2015 with a B.A. in Music. In 2014, she received two grants to study Hindustani music in India. A recipient of the Madeira Award of the Brown Club of Rhode Island, she also received a Brown University Distinguished Senior Thesis Award for her work on Gyaan Kar Dekh/Perceive with Love, a collaborative piece for Indian and Western Classical instruments and Odissi dance. Last October, her arrangement, “Lagan Bina” for Hindustani vocalist and string quartet, was performed at the Shastra Symposium 2016 at William Paterson University, NJ, alongside her presentation "Arranging with Hindustani Music: a Student Perspective." Akshaya works part-time as Program Coordinator at Shastra, an organization dedicated to connecting the musical traditions of India and the West.
Website: www.akshayatucker.com |
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Portuguese pianist Miguel Campinho has performed as a soloist and as a collaborative pianist extensively throughout Europe and the USA. Piano Journal writes that “Campinho's playing is always powerful with a purposeful direction. His technique serves him well through lucid phrasing, uncannily clearly executed passages, judicious pedaling, all combined with a sensibility for this music that brings it to an exciting and vivid life. Campinho is a pianist to watch.” He is a lecturer in collaborative piano at the Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Campinho has played the US premieres of many compositions by Portuguese composers. He has recorded the complete sonatas and sonatinas of Eurico Tomás de Lima. In 2015, US Senator Christopher Murphy, the State of Connecticut, and the Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States presented Miguel Campinho with certificates of recognition and accomplishment for his work promoting Portuguese culture, arts, and heritage. Dr. Campinho holds Master of Music, Artist Diploma, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in piano performance from The Hartt School, where he was a protégé of Luiz de Moura Castro. Dr. Campinho was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda and is a member of the American Liszt Society. Website: www.miguelcampinho.com |
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An active performer, Shelley Martinson has appeared as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician throughout the United States. Martinson is Assistant Professor of Flute at Southwestern Oklahoma State University and previously served as Visiting Instructor of Flute at Skidmore College. Martinson serves on the board of the Oklahoma Flute Society (Past President) and is chair of the National Flute Association's (NFA) Career and Artistic Development Committee.
An advocate of both music of the past and present, Martinson is founder and president of the Flute New Music Consortium, an award winning commissioning organization dedicated to expanding and enhancing the modern flute repertoire. She performs regularly throughout the region with the Tornado Alley Flutes. Recent engagements include performances, master classes, and presentations at the NFA Convention, Florida Flute Association Convention, College Music Society National Conference, Oklahoma Flute Society, Florida State University, Kansas State University, Oklahoma Baptist University, Northeaster Oklahoma State University, University of Akron, Cameron University, and Malone University, among others. Recipient of the NFA's 2014 Graduate Research Competition, Martinson holds degrees from Florida State University (DMA with certificate in World Music), University of Akron (MM flute performance and music history), and Skidmore College. Website: www.shelleymartinson.com |
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Dr. Philip Martinson joined the faculty at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 2017. A tenured member of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic (second trombone), Martinson also performs as principal trombone of the Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra, and is active as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician throughout the United States. Recent engagements include performances at the OK Mozart International Music Festival, American Trombone Workshop, International Trombone Festival, Skidmore College, Oklahoma Baptist University, University of Akron and Malone University. A presenting artist at the 2017 International Trombone Festival at the University of Redlands (CA), Martinson presented a lecture entitled, “Sound Development Through Non-Traditional Techniques.” Prior to joining the OKC Philharmonic, Martinson held the position of second trombone with the Ocala Symphony Orchestra (FL) for three seasons. Recognitions in the International Trombone Association Robert Marsteller, Gilberto Gagliardi/Weril and Larry Wiehe competitions, as well as competing as a finalist in the 2016 American Trombone Workshop National Solo Competition further speak to his proficiency as a trombonist. He holds degrees from Indiana University, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Akron. His primary teachers include Dr. Irvin Wagner, Peter Ellefson, Stephen Fissel, Ed Zadrozny, and Dr. Jim Robertson. He is a native of Huntley, MT. Website: www.philipmartinson.com |
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